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ancient Indian genealogy
Author_Simon Pearse Brodbeck
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Eva
Female Links
Follow
Hold
hunting
Hunting Story
Ima?
Indian Rhinoceros
Junior Branch
Killing Deer
King Janamejaya
kinship structures India
literature
match
Mongoose
narrative transmission
P?ru
patrilineal inheritance research
Reborn
royal succession studies
Sa Eva
Sanskrit epic analysis
sarpa
story
Superb
Superimpose
text-critical methodology
trip
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Van Buitenen
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Vice Versa
Wander
Wo
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754667872
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list of kings. Brodbeck explores the importance and implications of patrilineal maintenance within the royal culture depicted by the text, and shows how patrilineal memory comes up against the fact that in every generation a wife must be involved, with the consequent danger that the children might not sustain the memorial tradition of their paternal family. The Mahabharata Patriline bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Studying the Mahabharata as an integral literary unit and as a story stretched over dozens of generations, this book casts particular light on the events of the more recent generations and suggests that the text's internal narrators are members of the family whose story they tell.
Simon Brodbeck was educated at the universities of Cambridge and London. He has worked as a lecturer (University of Edinburgh, 2002-4), as a researcher (SOAS, University of London, 2004-7), and as a translator (Clay Sanskrit Library, 2007-8). He is currently a Reader at Cardiff University. Previous publications include Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata, Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black (eds), Routledge, 2007.
